Dan the Man, Spotify and ChatGPT

September 27, 2023

One Read, Whole Perspective

Australian News

  • Victorian Premier Dan Andrews resigns after 9 years.

  • AU workplaces have seen a 39% rise in sick leave and almost a 50% surge in compensation claims for psychological issues in the last 5 years.

  • AU to create a new nuclear medicine centre to help treat cancer patients and deliver essential diagnoses.

  • AU Department of Defence outsourced an additional 7% of workers in the year to March 2023.

  • School attendance rates in remote Northern Territory are as low as 18.7%, with the overall attendance rate of 73.4% falling from 81.7% in 2014.

Global News

  • Singapore defence experts detonated a 100kg World War Il-era bomb on Tuesday.

  • India has lost contact with its lunar lander currently exploring the extreme cold at the moon's south pole.

  • Libya orders arrests of dam officials over negligence and bad management of the floods.

Company News

  • ANZ fined $15M for misleading credit card users.

  • 1 in 5 EY and PwC partners earn more than $1.3M/yr.

  • UNSW is facing court for “knowingly” having poor payroll practices that led to mass underpayments.

  • Spotify’s new AI feature translates podcasts into other languages using the same voices as those in shows.

  • IBM and Johnson & Johnson fined for data breaches.

  • News Corp AU has become the first major Aussie news publisher to launch an online shopping site.

  • OpenAI is rolling out a version of ChatGPT that allows users to prompt using pictures and speech.

This Week’s All Star Picks

  • Average pay rises in new agreements are up 4.7%.

  • AU supermarket food prices increased by 7.2% YoY, outpacing the 4.9% annual rate of inflation.

  • Shoppers are spending more on second hand clothing, with 45% of shoppers reportedly increasing their purchases of pre-loved goods over the past 2 years.

  • Melbourne housing market set to outperform Sydney over the next 2 years, with prices projected to rise by 12% in the year to June 2025, and Sydney at 10.3%.

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